Archive for January, 2009
9 Ways to Secure Your Business in 2009
Make 2009 a better year for you by taking these actions to protect your computer against crashes, hacks, and viruses.
Make sure you have up-to-date anti-virus software installed. Schedule automatic or real-time scans so you don’t have to remember to run them. If you don’t have anti-virus software, try the free one from AVG.
Apply all patches [...]
Six Great Backup Solutions
What would happen to your business if your office got destroyed or your personal computer got fried, or your hard drive crashed.
The number one best way to protect your business against a disaster is to back up your data.
Here are some tools for backing up your computers:
Windows Backup – Windows built in backup software is [...]
Fast Spreading Windows Worm on the Move
According to F-Secure, there is a Windows worm/virus spreading very rapidly among computers right now. Although the worm does not appear to do any damage initially, it carries with it the ability to download new instructions in the future. It could potentially start stealing sensitive data from your computer or doing other damage.
F-Secure estimates the [...]
Can It Suck A Little Less When Your Hard Drive Crashes?
“OH NO, my system just crashed. The good news is that I had been backing up my files to an external hard drive. The bad news is that when I went to recover my files I found my external hard drive wasn’t working, either.”
I had a client come to me the other day with that [...]
Boom Year for High Tech Criminals
2008 was a boom year for cyber criminals according to an article by BBC News.
If 2007 was witness to the rise of the professional hi-tech criminal, then 2008 was the year they got down to work.
Criminals are starting to change the way they attack computers. While fake emails used to be the way to infect [...]